Few people know, but the film is a remake, the original was an old German film from 1962, it was absolutely adequate film, without quirks and inappropriate fiction. However, there is another link in the chain of alterations - Frank Miller's comic book of 1998, which at one time was torn apart for historical inauthenticity and ridiculous depictions of Spartans, Persians and everything else. In the 2007 film, the authors decided not to correct this, but generally do not deny themselves anything, stuffed monsters, orgies, red mist, portrayed the Persian king as a blue freak. As a result, it turned out absolutely unseemly nauseating porridge. The same disgusting floating dream I saw only twice - in the films "Heavenly Captain" and "Beowulf" 2007 - everything is blurry, approximate, look and seem to go blind, at the end of the film you can not distinguish faces from ass, everything is like jellyfish on the screen spreading, somewhere in the sterility of the drawn sky.
For a long time I didn’t understand why it was so bad. The film seems to be made by a bad AI that has no idea of reality. I finally saw the director and everything became clear. This is Snyder, a highly praised ineptitude, who made only one film, for which there are no questions, Dawn of the Dead (successful only because the genre itself is difficult to spoil). Otherwise, all his merits are the incomparable "Legends of the Night Guards", "Forbidden Reception" and himself sob labor on the miserable ugly DC cinema universe, which he helped become such a parachute. It is not surprising that he has such a wretchedness.
In principle, the only thing that the film remembered in the people: “Vis! from!” Spartaaaa!!!!! 11.